IMO this is too complicated. I think products like the Synology Disk Station strike a better balance between ownership of data and maintenance over time. Tailscale even publishes a client for Synology products.
Everyone will have different goals and preferences. For instance, my dad just wanted a way to backup and remotely access some files, so we got him a Synology NAS. It's great for it's target users and if you're one of them, awesome!
I just don't like the lock-in that you get Synology. Plus I do enjoy tinkering with these things, so I wanted to put together something that balances usability, complexity while minimizing that lock-in
Is this the same Synology that a few years ago numerous people had their boxes ransomwared when they were open to the public internet. Synology continues to be shit value for the tools you get and as much as I want the convenience of ready to go software and hardware they cannot be relied on.
I am thinking about replacing my Synology BUT I have had three and now ECC over the last 20 years and they have done their job faullessly. There are stupid things now like complaining about non Synology ram modules.
